How to treat these walls?

[champ222]

Hi guys

I am renovating the kitchen currently, and having stripped out the old kitchen i am left with these walls.

There was a little bit of damp plasterboard behind the sink, and ive pulled the damp bits of wall away and whats left seems pretty solid, with exception of the window sill.

The original kitchen had a fairly large tiled area and the tiles went up either side of the window frame too.

I would like to fit new tiles, just a strip of a few tiles high, above the worktop, but i would be tiling on the brown plasterboard damaged surface for part of the room. (the other walls arent damaged like this). The tiles are 200x250x6mm ceramics, and i would like to smooth and paint the rest.

How would you approach this?


Cheers

 

[beanz]

Get a plasterer in to bond anything that needs bonding, then skim.

 

[Martyn Leeds]

A good tiler will get over that no problem














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Sorry, just my impression of a builder!

As above, get it bonded and skimmed.
No doubt you would be wanting the rest of the walls skimmed anyway, if you're doing a full new kitchen

 

[champ222]

hi

Thanks for the replies.

I'm not sure there is the budget for skimming the whole kitchen... Is it possible to tile onto the brown parts of the wall as shown in the pictures? Is there a primer that would make this possible?

Its my first house, and to be honest, everything needs doing. Every room, every carpet, new kitchen, new bathroom, new central heating, gardening work... etc, you get the picture.

Just got to do the whole house on the cheap this time, to make it liveable, then next time around, when we are re-decorating just one room at a time, we can have the wall skimmed etc and do it all properly.

Now, when i say "on the cheap" i mean that i'm ok with the walls looking a bit rough, and the ceilings looking a bit rough, and the doors looking dated etc, but it has to be safe, and the tiling has to be done so its done properly (ie properly adheared to the surface) even if its done by me and looks a bit rubbish.

Is this possible? or is bonding and skimming the only option here?

Thanks guys

 

[CJ]

The walls look very dusty? Covered in distemper? If so, give a good brush off, then prime with an acrylic primer. Then tile using a powdered flexi adhesive.

 

[beanz]

The tiling isn't an issue, to be honest, But you said you only wanted a small amount of tiling, and you want to paint be rest.... You can't paint those walls as they are.

 

[CJ]

The tiling isn't an issue, to be honest, But you said you only wanted a small amount of tiling, and you want to paint be rest.... You can't paint those walls as they are.

Thick lining paper...........1/2" thick. :smilewinkgrin:

 

[White Room]

A good plasterer should able to sort those bits out in a day.....

 

[Martyn Leeds]

Its hard to say without not knowing exactly where you're tiling, where you're painting and where you're units finish etc

Get a plasterer in for a look, you might be surprised, if its a day job it might be within budget

 

[champ222]

the two walls which are the brown rough finish will be pretty much covered up with cupboards, cooker hood, fridge freezer and the tile splashback (although the tiles will go all the way around the kitchen) the other two walls, while a bit rustic lookings, should be ok with a bit of paint and polyfilla.

so if i can tile ok on the brown bits of damaged plasterboard (with an appropriate primer??) , fix the big holes in the wall/windowsill with something i can tile on straight away (multi-finish? plaster repair?) and prime the rest of the wall with something that means it will accept paint, then i'll be happy, the kitchen can be useable, which means my wife will be happy.

we havent had a cooker now for two months.